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'All goes well', instead of 'Augers well'.

No surprise though that people write what they hear, or what they think they hear. I read a reference the other day to an incomplete report being 'a working progress'.

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    Not a mixed metaphor but certainly a gaffe ... VSF'nL (the former 'Victorian State Football League') - Peter Daicos

    Rumour mongrels - Tony Shaw

    Edited by Macca

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    Just a wrongly expressed metaphor: To go over something with a 'fine toothcomb' rather than 'fine-tooth comb'.

    And a couple from the Bjelke-petersen days: "Just you take a leaf out of the side of my page..." and "That'll set the cat among the applecart". Don't know if they are real, but they could easily have been.

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    'Bounce Down'

    Shows the level of intelligence running the AFL

    You either bounce, or throw it up

    I agree -- as an expression, 'bounce down' is a balls up .. :)

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    I have a maltese guy at my work that always uses this little gem 'Red as the ace of spades'.

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    The leading candidate for Australia's first ever Pope certainly does? Or else he can't see the wood for the trees.

    You got that in won pell swap
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    Just a wrongly expressed metaphor: To go over something with a 'fine toothcomb' rather than 'fine-tooth comb'.

    Yew are obviously fortunate enough not to grow hair on your teeth, otherwise yew two wood knead won..
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    People who live in glass houses should get out and smell the roses

    (do people actually live in glass houses?)

    Didn't Sam Newman have one in Canterbury Road, Middle Park?
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    Didn't Sam Newman have one in Canterbury Road, Middle Park?

    good get mono. didn't stop him throwing stones but..............or smelling the roses (so to speak)

    Edited by daisycutter

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    'All goes well', instead of 'Augers well'.

    Speaking of, ahem, malaphorisms - "all beat" instead of albeit and "changing tact" instead of changing tack.

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    People in grass houses shouldn't get stoned. Or. Come and goose the cook that laid the golden egg.

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    A couple of years ago Matty Granland nailed the hammer when he said: "Freo are about to put a knife in the coffin."

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    I know this isn't a metaphor but the fork-and-spoon commentators that say 'agreeance' instead of 'agreement' make me want to grab my remote and, with anger in my heart, change the channel.

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    Don't forget the Ox's masterpiece..."long term-gevity" (Or should that be written as "longterm-gevity". I have no idea how to actually write it down).

    And it frustrates me when shop assistants say they'll be with me momentarily. I'd rather they were with me in a moment rather than for a moment.

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    And it frustrates me when shop assistants say they'll be with me momentarily. I'd rather they were with me in a moment rather than for a moment.

    I would prefer the opposite...

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    I know this isn't a metaphor but the fork-and-spoon commentators that say 'agreeance' instead of 'agreement' make me want to grab my remote and, with anger in my heart, change the channel.

    bit like players who show "aggressiveness" rather than just "aggression".

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    bit like players who show "aggressiveness" rather than just "aggression".

    well willy shakespeare made up a whole lot of new words that stuck

    just saying

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    Would "augers well" be a mixed metaphor when you mean "augurs well"?

    Depends how well drilled you are in the English language
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    I'd just like to say I can't imagine the Collingwood forum has a thread dedicated to peoples favourite abuse of the english language.

    However, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a thread about their favourite use of abusive language during bail applications.

    Go Dees.

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